SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. IX. A writer describes Kodiak Island, Alaska, as larger than either of the New England States, with a genial climate capable of producing many varieties of fruit. Thirteen members of the new United States Senate arc natives of New York, Ohio comes next with eight of her sons in the Senate, while Pennsylvania and Kentucky have six each. India silks are as cheap in Boston as in Calcutta, and they do say, whispers the Boston 'Transcript, that most of the charming "Indian" fabrics now for sale on the bargain counters arc made in Manchester. There is quite a little society war in England over the wearing of cockades by servants. When the custom began, the cockade on a servant's hat signified that his master was either in the army or navy. Now it signifies nothing, and military men are inclined to assert their prerogative to the exclusive right to adorn their servants' hats with cockades. As a solution of all differences, it has been proposed that Parliament should pass an act imposing a tax on cockades. Everybody who wants to put a cockade 011 a tluuky's hat can then do S3 by pay ing for the precious privilege. The old furniture mania lia3 reached a second and, in the estimation of the New Orleans Time*-Democrat, more rational stage. At first the rage was for old furniture, simply without reference to its quality. Nov/ people aie more discrim inating, having learned that 111 the good old days there were bad or dishonest workmen, just as there are to-day. At the present time the old houses in Hol land and Belgium are looked upon with the greatest interest by collectors of an tique furniture, as they contain a great deal of the finest furniture, which has been liauded down for several genera tions. According to a census bulletin, tho ratio of land and water surface is 93.10 and 1.84 per cent, respectively. This bulletin also givc3 the are 1 of the States and Territories by counties, and the classification o£ the latter by sizes. The average number of persons to each square mile of tho land surface of the Union is 21.08. As illustrative of the sustaining capacity of the United States,tho bulletin says that if Texas, the largest State in the Union, was as thickly populated as the State of Ilhode Island, it would liavo 83,523,028 inhabitants, while if the United States had a density of popula tion equal to that of Hhode Islaud, the population of the Union,instead of being 02,022,250, would reach the enormous sum of 945,706,300, or nearly two thirds of the present population of the world. The condition of rural Franco has some resemblance to that of rural New Eng land. The Economise Francak gives a digest of a number of recent documents relating to the condition of the agricul tural laborer there. Wages of farm hands have quadrupled during tho present century, and the greatest increa-c has been in the lowest form of labor. The man of all work, who was paid only S2O per year, in addition to his board in 1884, now gets SBO, while the shepherd, "the aristocrat of the farm," who received then §O2 and board, now gets only §l2O. His wages have not doubled, while those of the humbler workman have more than quadrupled. The increase of wages of farm hands is ascribed in part to the de mand for labor in factories and on rail roads, and in part to the military service, which takes young men from the farms at the period when their habits are form ing, and gives them a taste of town life from which they arc never wholly weaned. When their term of service expires, they begin to look for situations in the towns and to worry the public men to find places for them. These drafts upon the rural population, tending to lessen the number of farm laborers, raise the wages of those who remaili. The re sult is smaller profits to tho farmer and a sort of agricultural crisis. iStill another fact in the matter of rural (jlepopulation is noticed, namely, a diminution in the number of children. Several cantons are named in which there tits been a marked decrease of population since 1808. In two of these thy ascertained reason for a diminution of Inc number of births was"the desire of the parents to improve their own condition," and it is added that this effect/ has followed. Here we find real iu prac tise. IDEALS. Like butterflies that fret Entangled in a net, Then at the last thro' some chance rift ea cape Of half their raidance shorn. With ruffled plumes and torn, Bright mockeries of their former hues and shapes; So in the poet's mind Tho rich ideas confined Struggle to break in music from his tongue; He siieaks —he speaks—but ah, How changed, how different far Tho thought once uttered from the thought unsung! So, too, the painter sees Bewildering images, And brush is seized, and canvass quick un furled; The bright creation glows, But lo! his easel shows Mere shadowy glimpses of that vision-world. Know then whate'er wo cull From Art's flelds beautiful, Whatever fruits philosophies may yield, Their prototypes more fair Are blossoming elsewhere, Sweet songs unsung and visions unrevealed; Until the veil is rent, Our liesh-impi'isontnent, And wo are borne beyond this dust's con trol . Then shall our orbless eyes Behold realities, And soul commune immediately with soul. —Temple Bar. MARY CLARIMONT, M. I). When Mary Clariraont's engagement was proclaimed to the world there en sued a general expression of surprise. People are generally surprised at mat rimonial engagements. There is always some cogent reason why things should have been adjusted otherwise—why John should have married Joan, and Peter should prefer Betsey. Nobody was ever yet married to suit everybody. But in Mary Clarimont's case it did really seem as if the course of true love had interfered seriously with the current of comfton sense and prudence. Miss Clarimont was only one-and twenty, a tall, imperial beauty, with dewy black eyes, a skin as fresh as damask roses, and dark-brown hair, coiled in shining bands at the back of her head. Moreover, Miss Clarimont had a "career" before her. She had just graduated from Mcdfield Medical University, and taken out her diploma as an M. D. "And only to think of it," said Aunt Jo, bursting into tears of vexation and disappointment, "that she must needs go and ruin all her prospects by get ting engaged to Harry Mariow, down in New York!" "It does seem strange. Aunt Jo, when I sit down and think of it," said Doctor Mary, laughing and blushing. "Six months ago my profession was all the world to me. I neither wished nor cared for anything outside its limits. The future was all mapped out before me without let or hindrance; and now " "Humph i" growled Aunt Jo. "Any brainless idiot can get married and keep a man's house and mend his shirts for him, but you were made for something higher and more dignified, Mary." Mary's dew-bright e3'es sparkled. "Higher, Aunt Jo?' : said she. "More dignified? There you are mistaken. There is no higher or more dignified lot in life than that of the true wife of a iioblc husband." "Fiddlesticks!" said Aunt Jo. "As if every poor fool who was dazzled by the glitter of a wedding ring didn't say the same thing! You've disappointed me, Mary Clarimont, and I'm ashamed of you, and that is the long and the short of it." "Dear Aunt Jo," said she, "I shall not let my sword and shield rust, believe me. llarry has only his own talents to advance him in the world, and it will be at least a year before we shall be ready to marry. In the meantime I shall ac cept the post of visiting physician to the Aldenbury Almshouse and practise my profession, just the same as if there were no engagement." "I wish to goodness there wasn't," said Aunt Jo. "I tell you what, Mary, I don't fancy that smiling, smooth tongued young man of yours, and I never shall." Still Dr. Mary Clarimont kept her tem per. "I am sorry, Aunt Jo," she said, pleasantly. "But I hope that you will eventually change your mind." "I used to keep a thread-and-needk store when I was a young woman," re marked Aunt Jo, dryly, "and I always could tell the ring of a counterfeit half dollar when a customer laid it on the counter. I could then, and I can now —and I tell you what, Mary, there's base metal about Harry Marlow." Dr. Mary bit her lip. "Perhaps. We will not discuss the subject further, Auut Jo," she said, with quiet diguity, and the old lady said no more. "Aunt Jo is wrong," persisted the pretty young M. D. to herself. "Mary is making a fool of herselfl" thought Aunt Jo. Aldenbury was a pretty manufacturing village, with a main street shaded by umbrageous maples, a "west end,"where people who had made their fortunes lived comfortably in roomy old houses, surrounded by velvet laws and terraced gardens, and an "cast end," where peo ple fought desperately and not always LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 29. 1891. successfully to keep body and soul to gether on the merest pittance. And a little way out of the village the almshouses, built and endowed by a cer tain smuggling sea captain, whose con science had pricked him during his latter days, raised their gray stone gables to the sky, and made a picturesque back ground to the landscape. Dr. Mary Clarimont made something of a sensation at Aldenbury. Up to this time all the resident M. D.'s had been stuffy old gentlemen with wigs, or pert young ones with eyeglasses. A beautiful young lady who wrote pre scriptions and compounded pills and po tions was a novelty in the town, and by no means a disagreeable one. People rather liked the idea, once they had con vinced themselves that the lady doctor understood herself and her patients. And the poor old people at the aim house grew to love I)r. Mary and listen with eager ears for the sound of her carriage wheels over the blue gravel drive which led up to the portico. It was a brilliant December day when the young physician stood in the neatly capcted reception-room drawing on her fur gloves previous to entering her neat phaeton once again, while she reiterated to the white-capped maid some direc tions concerning old Ann Mudgett's rheumatism, when the matron hurried in. ■'Oh, I beg your pardon, Dr. Clari mont," said she, "but I clean forgot the new old woman." "The new old woman," repeated Dr. Mary, with a smile. "That is," exclaimed Mrs. Cunning ham, "she only caine last night—a quiet old soul, half blind, and quite .bad with the asthma. Perhaps you'd better just seo ber before you go. She brought a card of admission from Dr. Merton, the New York clergyman, who is one of our directors, you know. And she seems a decent body enough." So Dr. Mary went cheerfully into the little brick-paved room, with its white pallet-bed, cushioned rocking-chair, and neatly-draped casement, where snt a p-jor, little, shrivelcd-up woman,wrapped in a faded shawl. She looked timidly up, as Dr. Mary came in, from under the borders of her cap. "I'm a poor body, miss," said she, "and I'm sensible I'm making a deal of trouble in the world. But the Lord don't always take us, miss, when we'd like to go." "This is the doctor," said Mrs. Cun ningham. The little woman would have risen up to make a feeble curtesy, but Dr. Mary motioned her to keep her seat. "What is your name?" said she pleas antly. "LouiseMarlow, miss." "Marlow! That is an unusual name, isn't it?" said Mary Clairmont, coloring in spite of herself. "We're English, miss," said the old woman, struggling bravely with her asthma. "There aiu't many of lis in this country. I've a son, miss, in the law business, as any mother might be proud of." "Ason!" echoed Mrs. Cunningham; "and you in the almshouse?" "Hot that it's his fault, ma'am," the old creature made haste to explain. "My sou is to be married to a tiac, proud lady, as is fit for any prince in ail the land, and,of course,he can't be expected to burden himself with a helpless old woman like me. He says I'm to write and let him know how I get along,and if I'm sick or anything he'll try fo sec. I sewed carpets until the asthma got hold of me, and supported myself comfortably. But, of course, I couldn't lay up any thing for a raioy day—who could? And Ilenry couldn't help me, for lie's getting ready to be married, poor lad! So I went to I)r. Merton and asked him did he know any decent place where an old woman like me could end her days in peace. And he gave me a card to come here and some money to pay my traveling expenses—God bless him!— and here I am." Mary Chariinont listened quietly to the garrulous talc, but the color varied iu her cheek more than once as she stood there. "Is your son's name Ilarry Marlow?" she said, slowly and thoughtfully. "Yes, miss, at your service," said the old woman, with a duck of her white capped head, which was meant to do duty in place of the impossible curtesy. "Is he like this?" said Dr. Mary, tak ing a photograph from her pocket. The old woman, with trembling hands, fitted on her iron-bowed spectacles, and looked at the picture, uttering a little cry of recognition. "Sure, miss, it is his own self," she cried. "You arc acquainted with him, then?" "Somewhat," said Dr. Mary, com posedly, as she returned the photograph to its place. "And now I will leave you something to relievo this difficulty ia breathing." But the old crone eyed her wistfully. "Perhaps you know the young lady my son is to marry?" "Yes," said Dr. Mary, writing some thing in her prescription book. "I have seen her." "Perhaps, miss," faltered the old woman, "you would give her my humble duty, and tell her I would just like to look at her for once and see what she is like. There's no fear of my troubling her, miss, for I mean to end my days here. But I would like to see her just or.ee. And if it wouldn't be asking too much, miss, would you please write to my son, and tell him where I am, for Fm no scholar myself,and I'm his mother, after an." "I will write to him," said Dr. Mary, quietly; and so she went away. "I never see a lady doctor afore," said old Mrs. Marlow, with a long sigh. "But she's a pretty creetur, and it seems good to have her around. I hope she'll come again soon." "You may be very sure of that," said the matron, brusquely. "Dr. Clarimont ain't one to neglect poor people because they are poor." That evening Aunt Jo, frying crullers over the kitchen fire, was surprised by a visit from her niece, who came in all wrapped in furs, with her cheeks crim soned with the frosty winter air. "Bless me! this ain't never you!" said Aunt Jo, peering over her spectacles. "I drove over to see you, Aunt Jo," said Mary, "to tell you that you were right. The metal was counterfeit." "Eh?" said Aunt Jo, mechanically la dling out the browu, curly crullers, al though she did not look at what she was doing. "I have written to Ilarry Marlow, can celing our engagement," said Dr. Mary, calmly, albeit her voice faltered a little. "The man who will heartlessly let his old mother goto the almshouse, sooner than to take the trouble to maintain her, can be no fit husband for any woman!" And then she sat down by the fire and told Aunt Jo everything; for crabbed, crusty old Aunt Jo hod boen like a mother to her, and the girl's heart was full to overflowing. When she had ceased speaking, Aunt Jo nodded her head. "You have done well and wisely," said she. Old Mrs. Marlow died that winter in Aldenbury Almshouse, with her head on Dr. Mary Clarimont's arm, and never knew that her garrulous confessions had deprived her sou of his promised wife. And Mary says quietly and resolutely that her profession must be husband and home to her henceforward. "Just what it ought to be," says Aunt Jo. "No women ever yet succeeded in doing two things at once."— lndianapolis News. Fresh-Water Commerce. Probably there are few people whose attention has not been specially directed to the subject, who are aware of the magnitude of the commerce upon the Great Lakes. It has beeu asserted that more tons of freight puss through the Detroit River i in a year than the total imports and ex- I ports of the United States for the same period. The commerce of tlio Great Lakes is carried upon more than two thousand vessels, of which more than half are pro pelled by steam. About six hundred schooners, some of them great four-masted craft, ply on the lakes during the five or six months wlieu i the straits and ports are not closed by I ice. Many more are small schooners; ! and of these a large number, on the up j per lakes, are owned and manned by hardy Norwegian sailors who have emi grated to this country. Steam is gradually displacing the wind as the motive power of the lake traffic, and steel is displacing wood us a mater ial. The steam vessels, too, are con stantly increasing in size. In 188G, there were but six steel vessels on the Great Lakes; in 1890 there were sixty eight. At the same time that these changes in the size and material of vessels are taking place, a change is going on in their ownership. There is a smaller pro portion of vessels owned by individuals or small partnerships. The traffic of the lakes is rapidly coming under control of corporations possessing large capital. The two great items of freight in the vast traffic of the Great Lakes are ore and grain. Many millions of tons of ore are yearly brought through the Sault Ste. Marie canal down the lakes. Seventy million bushels of wheat and four million bushels of flour go annually by water to Buffalo. The corn tonnage is still larger. Yet the Great Lakes are ciosed to navigation during as least six months a year, and winters have been known when Lakes Superior and Michigan were frozen from shore to shore. Youth's Compan ion. n. WiffeL Righthandeilncss. There is evidently something in the structure of the human body that makes a person naturally righthauded. If this were not so the fashion of using mainly the right hand or the left would from generation to generation instead of remaining the same as it seems to have done from the earliest times of which we have any account. The two sides of the body are rarely the same. The left foot is generally smaller than the right, the two sides of a man's head do not curve in the same way, and the brain structure is not exactly the same on both sides.— St. Louis Republic. The Strongest Race. "The Irish is the strongest race in the world," said one of them. "We have the breadth, the chest. A few years ago two regiments of the British army were ',incd up, the one in front of the other. There were 1000 Englishmen of the Royal Guard in one line, and 1000 Irish men of the Connaught Rangers in the other. The lines began at the same place, but the line of Irishmen stretched ; thirty-six feet further than the other. \ It was caused by the difference in width ; of chest, for the men in both regiments touched elbows."— St. Louis Bfpubli». Terms—sl.2s in Advance; $1.50 after Three Months SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Heating by electricity is promised. Compressed air signals are successful. A petroleum bicycle makes forty-nine miles an hour. It is said that at last a satisfactory arc lamp for use on an incandescent circuit has been designed. The electrical underground railway in London has proved that a speed of twenty-four miles an hour is practicable. The electric arc is composed of a stream of vapor arising from the actual boiling or vaporization of tho solid ends of the jeparated conductors. To secure uniformity in the painting Hid varnishing of their passenger and ireighs cars some railroads employ ex pert chemists to analyze the paints and ails used. A double hulled ship has been devised jy Captain Meacon, of Chelsea, Mass., which is said to be absolutely unsinkable. His plan has received indorsement in the lighest quarters. A new electric appliance is so con itructed that in railway train signalling It is impossible to give a clear signal be fore the delivery of orders intended for '.he approaching train. The only onyx polishing works in this country, located in Rutland, Vt., will be removed to Missouri and engage in pre paring for market the vast quantities of Dnvx mined in Crawford and Pulaski counties. One of the two chimpanzees at the Paris Jardin d'Acclimatation inoculated with Koch's lymph died forty-eight hour 3 after the operation. The lungs of the creature were sent to the Alfort School of Medicine to be carefully ex amined. At Mont-Dol, in Brittany, already well-known geologists and palteontolog ists, the remains of about a hundred ele phants have been discovered, gathered on a small surface of about 1900 square metres. All the bones ere broken, and it is thought that the animals must have been eaten by prehistoric men. In response to inquiries as to how hard rubber can be polished, the following in structions are given: Use a felt lap charged with the finest grade of pvunice stone mixed with enough lard oil to make a thick paste. Hun the lap at a high speed, and of course, apply the rubber to the side and not to the rim of the lap. A device has been recently patented in England for the purpose of removing grease from gloves or fabrics. It is called a benzine pencil, and consists of a cylindrical body about the size of an ordinary lead pencil, containing benzine. At each end ther3 is a thick piece of felt. One piece is intended to be moistened by the benzine, while the other encl of the pencil is kept perfectly dry to take up the superfluous moisture. A number of experiments on the com parative palatability of insects, etc., are recorded in jVaiwrc,by E. B. Tichenerand F. Finn. Tho insects experimented upon—consisting of beetles, moths,bees, etc.—were offered to domestic mice, common toads, and a common mynah. The results evinced considerable varia bility and some caprice in the tastes of the animals fed, but do not indicate that thoir appetites were voracious for the delicacies given them. The stronger beetles were taken with some hesitation. The mice declined to take bumble-bees; the mynah ate wasps greedily; the toads readily took wasps and bees, and were often stung, without seeming to pay much attention to the accident. The cockroach was eaten by the toads. The mynah for a long timo refused, and only took it, as well as the earth-worm, finally, in the dearth of our insects. A few centipeds were given to the mice aud the mynah, but were never eaten, though the mice, in one case, eagerly seized aud killed a large specimen. Tin In Silk. An ingenious Frenchman has discov ered a process of recovering the tin con tained in the wash waters of silks which have been weighted, and has accordingly received from the French Society for tho Encouragement of National Industry the prize allotted for tho utilization of rcsid eral substances, and it is estimated that Lyons alone will effect an annual economy of $60,000 by these means. The gentleman deserves his reward, for the history of the reclamation of wasle products, although it has been full of surprises aud may be considered an amazing testimony to the genius and patience of man, contains nothing more remarkable than this profit derived from the refuse of this excessive adulterant. Tho question has been more than ouce asked why silk rags had no value, but they may yet bo sought after by dust contractors and marine store dealers, not for the sake of the silk, but of the tiu, and if we had an industrial mint we might contemplate the contingency of an old silk gown split and torn because it was as much metal as textile, being converted into a dripping pan or some other kitchen utensil.— San Francisco Chronicle. Pardoning the Dead. The Emperor of China has a curious way of expressing his gratitude for the faithful services of a de ceased minister. In the issue of the Pe kin Official Journal which followed the death of the Marquis Tseng an imperial decree was published announcing that his majesty freely pardoued tho dead statesman all tho faults and crimes «hich he committed during his life.— Chicago New*. NO. 33. THE DESERTED HOUSE.'• Back from the road, up the old path, \ Unmindful of harvest and aftermath. With empty casements, drear and gray. The house stands, facing down the bay-* And either side the slanting gate The faithful sentinel lilacs wait. Deep tangling vines with close embrace The porch's fluted columns trace. And busy swallows dart and call Prom out the rain-stained, sagging wall— And longing, watching, desolate, The faithful sentinel lilacs wait. At dusk in the old house I see A dancing light's weird mystery. Is it a firefly's fitful gleam, Or some ghost candle's flickering beam? Is it for this, when the hour grows lato. The faithful sentinel lilacs wait? —Boston Transcript. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A spring dish—Frogs' legs. Hand-over-hand—The highwayman. Dead men tell no tales, but they leave no end of them in print.— Puck. Of all sad words of tongue or lip, The saddest is: "I've got the grip." —Dansville Breeze. You need help to raise a laugh, but you can sigh alone.— lndianapolis Jour nal. The greatest philosophy is in not want ing things you can't get.— Atchison Globe. The father gathers his dollars in cents; his son scatters the cents in dollars.— Troy Press. •'Soft and low," sang the peddler, who was closing out some over-ripe fruit at reduced rates.— Statesman. "Fetching little thing, isn't it?" as the owner of a retriever pup remarked to a friend.— St. Joseph News. Women are not cruel to dumb ani mals. No woman will willfully step on a mouse.— Richmond Recorder. It takes nine tailors to make the modem man. One to make the clothes and eight to collect the bill. — New York Re corder. Miss Tence—"l like to meet a man with a history." Mr. Tence—"So do I —provided he doesn't have it for sale." —Puek. Mrs. Brown—"My baby is the pretti est in the town." Mrs. Bla«k—"Why, what a coincidence! So is mine."— Harper's Bajar. Styles of female beauty are said to have changed within the past few years. Short women are not in good form—any longer.— Lowell Courier. "Move forward a little!" roared the street car conductor. "I can't," gasped the man in front, "I don't know how to ride horseback."— Harper's Bazar. Mv name's "Responsibility," I'm awful hard to fix; But when well fixed, to fix the fix Is one of my sly tricks. —Puck. It is not safe to judge a man's courage by the tone of voice he employs when he speaks to the office-boy. Wait until you hear him address his wife.— New York Recorder. "Jack doesn't call on Miss Goklie aow." "No; I heard he was put out with her father." "I rather guess it is because he was put out by her father." —New York Press. "What! you say that Mr. Smith, the merchant, has gone blind! Here's a pretty how d'ye do. I've got a bill on the man which is made out 'payable at sight!"'— New York World. Mrs. Malaprop sometimes hits the nail on the head. It rained in torrents as she left the church Sunday morning without au umbrella. "How irrigating this is!" she ejaculated.— New York Herald. Judge (to youthful witness) —"My sou, do you know what would become of you if you should swear to what is not true?" Youthful Witness—"Yes'r. The lawycrs'd git me."— Chicago Tribune. It is hard on a man to have his beard ! shaved oil for fun, just to see if his ; friends will recognize him, and then to be bitten by his own dog at the front gate when he comes home to tea.—- Somerville Journal. Wickwire—"And what is your opinion on the issue of an elastic currency, Mudge?" Mudge—"lf it will enable a man to stretch his week's salary from ono pay day to the next, I'm in for it." —lndianapolis Journal. Ho stole her glove, For deop in love He was.and badly smitten; But, later viewed. The crime he rued, When he received—the mitteu. —Judge. Tommy—"Cau wc play at keeping a store in here, mamma?" Mamma (who has a headache) —"Certainly, but you must be very, very quiet." Tommy— "Well, we'll pretend we don't adver tise."—Art in Advertising. Judge—"You are an incorrigible youug scoundrel! You stole from your parents and then left a good home. Why did you do that?" Penitent— "Your honor, it was impossible for mo to take it with mc."— Ntw York JleraM. "That's a little hint I give my land lady once in a while," said Mr. A. Star boarder; and as he spoke he deposited on the floor the advertising sheet of the Whirled, from which half-a-dozen of the "Boarders Wauted" advertisements had been cut out."— Puck. Wire-wound guns are the latest ac quisition of the VaiUd States Navy.
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